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The mega64 podcast talked about this recently. This shit started with oblivion and the horse armor shit, and rockband was a game that it was widely accepted would just have hundreds of microtransactions for

All been downhill from there, im looking for a new hobby right now because of it, maybe reading

Back then, video games were more expensive than ever (taking inflation into account), you couldn't even play most of them for yourself and had to spend quarters at an Arcade machine for a play, and because of that games were designed to suck quarters out of you this way by being bullshit, let's also not forget the video games that were designed to be basically impossible for you to finish if you didn't own a strategy guide.

And let's not forget that the standards of games back then used to be way lower, and you had no proper way of judging gameplay...Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

My son and I got Steam Link and controllers as a shared gift for each other for the holidays. Just have to say it's the best thing ever. We've had a shared Steam library for a while (500 games between us) and have on occasion dragged one of our PCs out to the living room to play together on Big Picture. But tonight it was truly wonderful, we spent 6 hours playing games and laughing and showing each other cool things on games we each like. A very nice change from both of us playing in different rooms all the time. Not saying that hanging out with the mom is going to...Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.

steam controllers not very good for most games. it was made to make traditionally "mouse and keyboard" games playable. so, think RTS games or games like that.

i'd get either an xbox 360 controller or an Xbox elite controller. you can get a wired 360 controller for really cheap but if you want a really fancy controller then you should shell out the $100+ dollars for the elite controller.

>listens to music on a Japanese CD player>drives a Japanese car>chit-chats online on a Japanese culture, Japanese-style image board owned by a certified Japanese man>uses Japanese slang/terms/words unironically>plays Japanese games on Japanese video game consoles

the only thing we know about it is it's made by Nintendo and it doesn't have a disc drive, and it's supposed to be like nothing else they've ever done before and there are strong hints at a marriage between home console and handheld, at least for the software

we know literally nothing else, anyone who says anything different is an idiot or a shitposter, and should be disregarded either way